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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: "Dr. Tilmann Bubeck"
	<t.bubeck-dx1aEnP5Zukb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is order for "exportfs -r" and rpc.mountd important?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:43:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4937ECAB.3020407@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081204143553.GC3495@fieldses.org>



J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:16:13PM +0100, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck wrote:
>> It's very good that it is fixed in Fedora (my preferred distribution), but it 
>> is still wrong in SuSe (verified) and probably more.
>>
>> A better way would be to fix NFS and its utilities itself instead of fixing 
>> the distribution. This means, that the way the kernel and nfs-utils interact 
>> should be made more robust (see my posting before).
> 
> The problem of exportfs ignoring the uuid, at least, should be easy
> enough to fix.
> 
> I'd start by looking for the relevant code in nfs-utils/utils/exportfs/
> that passes the export entry down to the kernel and figure out what
> mountd is doing that it's not.

FYI... I created a bz (https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171) to 
track this problem

steved.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-04 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-28 14:41 Is order for "exportfs -r" and rpc.mountd important? Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
     [not found] ` <200811281541.39272.t.bubeck-dx1aEnP5Zukb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-28 16:05   ` Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
     [not found]     ` <200811281705.45087.t.bubeck-dx1aEnP5Zukb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-03 17:25       ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-12-04  9:25         ` Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
     [not found]           ` <200812041025.02563.t.bubeck-dx1aEnP5Zukb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-04 13:59             ` Steve Dickson
     [not found]               ` <4937E243.1080608-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-04 14:16                 ` Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
     [not found]                   ` <200812041516.14114.t.bubeck-dx1aEnP5Zukb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-04 14:35                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-12-04 14:43                       ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2008-12-05  6:05                   ` Neil Brown

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